Practice question · Put in order
Arrange the stages of a compositional working method in the order a photographer usually settles them.
- Place the subject within those edges
- Find a viewpoint that separates it from its background
- Decide what the subject actually is
- Settle where the four edges fall
- Check the corners and the background for intrusions
Hints
- The subject has to be identified before anything can be arranged around it.
- Checking the corners is the last thing before the exposure, not the first.
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- Decide what the subject actually is
- Find a viewpoint that separates it from its background
- Settle where the four edges fall
- Place the subject within those edges
- Check the corners and the background for intrusions
Why
The final step is the one that separates a made photograph from a lucky one. Almost every ruined negative is ruined at an edge or in a corner, by something the photographer never looked at because they were looking at the subject the whole time.
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